Dear dad, as you know I’m am a European immigrant and I’m from Eastern Europe just like you. The reason I left my homeland because of poverty, I no longer wanted to live in poverty and I knew if I left Eastern Europe I would be promised a job in the United States. My journey was very hard. When we loaded the ships we had to travel below deck with all the steering mechanisms were. It was very crowded and hard to move. There were so many people who got sick and became very ill because of the dirty quarters. I was lucky that I did not get sick but it was hard to keep hope. When I first arrived there were doctors there too inspect us to make sure we didn’t have any diseases. The doctors were on Ellis Island that inspected us. I felt very welcome
